Restaurant on the Rise
Chicken and Southern business empires seem practically synonymous. In the 1930s, Colonel Sanders began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Ky....
Seven at the Top
Jean Marie Thrower
President/CEO, Supplier Development Systems LLC, Birmingham
Start up blue-collar Kentucky, rebuild your own brakes. Jean Marie Thrower started working at age 16, saving enough money...
Beer and Alabama Breweries
The United States’ love of beer is older than the country itself. Among the passengers on the Mayflower during its 17th-century voyage to the...
The Modern Apprentice
A number of manufacturing apprenticeship programs have sprung up across the state in recent years in response to increased demand for workers with critical...
Riding Herd on the Senate
Breaking up a fight was not in the job description, but Secretary of the Senate Patrick Harris takes seriously his role as the enforcer...
Stores on Wheels
Mobile’s Carts Blanche LLC markets and sells vending machines, sort of, but not quite. Because referring to Carts Blanche’s ‘VendaCarts’ as just a vending...
Workforce Development
Terry Waters took over as the new head of workforce development for the state in November.
The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development comes under the...
Job Hopping and Exit Interviews
Job hopping is no longer career suicide in today’s business world. In fact, labor mobility is considered an indicator of a strengthening economy and...
Students Gain Fitness Training for the Real World
What do you do when even entry-level jobs require experience?
Many college students in Alabama turn to co-op programs — partnerships between universities and businesses...
State of the State’s Real Estate
Although Alabama’s commercial real estate sector still has a long way to go to fully recover from the recession, it has seen steady if...
